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THE SERVANT (1963) dir. Joseph Losey
#the servant#the servant 1963#dirk bogarde#james fox#classicfilmblr#classicfilmsource#classicfilmedit#fyeahmovies#dailyflicks#filmgifs#moviegifs#filmedit#movieedit#lgbtcinema#mine
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THE SERVANT 1963, dir. Joseph Losey
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James Fox and Dirk Bogarde on The Servant (1963) Dir. Joseph Losey (P. 1/3)
- "You won't get many better than me, you know. What do you want? An old hag running around the house, getting you up in the morning at the crack of dawn, telling you what to do? My only ambition is to serve you. You know that, don't you?" -
#the servant 1963#god i hope i managed to convey what the cinematographer had in mind#about how their power dynamic is reflected in their positioning relative to each other#basically why i made this gifset#also because james fox has a really pretty crying face#movie*#such an amazing movie#if you're able please give it a chance#also i love how every scene has a very pointed feeling thanks to both dirk and james' acting#their mannerisms around each other as the story progresses?? incredible#I could talk for hours about how tony can’t even hold eye contact on gifs 5&6#they both put their whole bussies into this movie and it shows#gonna tag this correctly later
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Part 4/? of this ask: Daniel reaching out to his younger self in the mirror.
This one was inspired by The Servant (1963) movie poster which is very Devil's Minion coded if you ask me 👀
#interview with the vampire#devil's minion#daniel molloy#armand#luke brandon field#eric bogosian#assad zaman#iwtv 2x05#art requests#anon#the servant 1963#inspired by
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Happy Valentines Day From The Servant (1963)
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THE SERVANT 1963 | dir. Joseph Losey
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#the servant 1963#the servant#hugo berrett#dirk bogarde#my posts#ignore the bad editing i made this at midnight hehe#template not mine
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THE SERVANT (1963) dir. Joseph Losey
#the servant#the servant 1963#joseph losey#filmedit#cinematv#classicfilmcentral#classicfilmedit#dirk bogarde#james fox#wendy craig#ellisedits#text post meme#dirk bogarde if you want to psychosexually micromanage my life of aimless foppery i am free on thursday night#please rearrange my girlfriend’s flower arrangements and overhaul my interior design plans on thursday night when i am free#queue
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in fiction i love love love the "master/slave" dynamic but with a hegelian twist. when the master is relying so much on the servant for survival and self conceptualisation he is effectively completly dependent on him. and from the dependence springs subservience... but also the servant has been completly consumed by his role his only solace is the pleasure he takes holding power over someone who was supposed to be dominating him :)
#in the words of my close and personal friends todd and ryan it's all about “the interdependence of things on their own internal opposition”#you will need a phd in yaoi to understand the adam and tadashi one#the servant 1963#sk8 the infinity#interview with the vampire#phantom thread#tadaai#loumand
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Must be funny in da rich man's world
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- In the army they used to call me Basher Barrett, sir. - Oh really? Why? - I was a very good driller.
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The biggest victims AND perpetuators of homophobia...
How is it cishet media?
The Exorcist: A movie (sort-of) beloved by the Catholic Church that promotes traditional family values. Has a lot of homophobic language, and it was released around Christmas. Only one gay character and they only tell you through a flamboyant gesture. Screen writer and book author was homophobic enough to make petitions to "un-catholic" the catholic school featured in this film (they were reaching out to gay students and having pride so he wrote an angry letter to the bishop) and it shows. The Vatican once invited the director to come over specifically because of the exorcist :(((
The Haunting: In the movie adaptation, Eleanor calls Theo "nature’s mistake" for being a big lesbian. She’s also in love with the scientist and looks at him like this 👁👄👁, instead of her being desperately and hopelessly in love with Theo in the book. Thanks to the tv series, people even think they're het and bisexual blood-related sisters. She was very much a stranger in the closet and gay for her. For the love of god read the book!!!
The Servant: 🤔🤔🤔 Is it homophobic for a butler to ruin a man and a woman's marriage, then systematically create a platonic co-dependent relationship with the ex-groom-to-be and turn him into a sexed-up alcoholic? (it's worse in the book. the butler tries to make up evidence that his master is a gay pedophile to blackmaile him).
How is it lgbt?
The Servant: Tony cries pathetically next to pictures of sexy athletic men in their underwear on his bed and it’s never explained. The conflict is largely pushed by the scene where Tony and his fiancee Susan see his butler Barrett naked in Tony's room after having sex. Also?? The way Barrett yanks up Tony's tie like he's about to dominate him??? They didn't have sex, but they did have sex with the same girl in the same time frame when she was in on it. I consider this toxic yaoi and a psychosexual class war. I'll put photos.
Haunting: Oh my goddddd is Eleanor still so repressed and dealing with internalized homophobia in the movie. She and Theodora have a love-hate-attraction-repulsion thing going on. Theo is lesbian-coded and was even supposed to have a female lover in the movie (her "roommate" in the book) but then came censorship. Eleanor calling Theo "unnatural" in the movie... that is a vintage code word for lesbian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2FKI7Fe-U). Before that, she was totally smitten even if the scientist distracts from that. The book is more lesbian, but at least the movie sneaks it in. And it sucks that Eleanor is so angry and lashing out but I get it. Her family hates or at least doesn't care about her feelings. n it's about how unsafe the traditional family structure really is even when you try to do found family but no one likes you for being gay and uptight. Oh and Theo, who is lesbian, survives at the end in all versions.
Exorcist: Regan is sooo off-putting and a bad daughter. This is just what being queer and having several diseases is like minus the exorcism. Her voice gets deep while she acts rebellious and her mom rejects her. Damien Karras (the younger priest) also reads as so repressedly gay and in the closet in the original book, but the movie squeezes in a bit of that with a scene where Fr. Dyer lays Karras to bed, and they hold hands until Karras eventually recoils with so much pathetic pain. I KNOW what you are. (https://afieldinengland.tumblr.com/post/657429236105248768/they-were-in-love-here) Karras and Dyer are even closer in the book, and Dyer is his stereotypically effeminate "ride or die" gay best friend. He told him to leave the priesthood with him since the gays are doing it, meanwhile all the other local priests were panicking about gay priests. The movie is extremely quotable too and I find that camp. Also found "Mother what's wrong with me?" and "That thing upstairs is not my daughter" to be sooo personal. I know it's homophobic but it helped me come out more somehow because I don't want to DIE like that. Saw some fun Regan MacNeil dragqueens, trans posts and non-binary comics (with regan and karras) awhile ago as well. In the 90s, a reviewer said that the movie was actually a priest's homoerotic wet dream (and that's why they wanted to kill pazuzu the "female element") and it so threw off the director to the point that his biography, an analytical book on the exorcist by kermode, AND some articles will bring it up as a bizarre theory or serious analysis. Well I say the reviewer had a point, but with the wrong priest. Dyer is the only confirmed gay character who gets censored a lot, but I know what those two had. Big closeted catholic energy. That's why Regan was so homophobic. She read Karras' mind.
Haunting Propaganda
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The Exorcist Propaganda
The Servant propaganda:
#the haunting 1963#the exorcist 1973#the servant 1963#horror#gothic horror#psychological horror#lgbt#cishet#The haunting of hill house#eleanor vance#damien karras#Theo thohh#Father dyer#regan macneil#tournament poll#Hugo Barrett
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James Fox and Wendy Craig → The Servant (1963) dir. Joseph Losey (P. 3/3)
#I could not stop looking @ his hand this whole scene#I know it doesn’t look whumpy#but I swear it’s good#he can’t EVEN TOUch her#I need a 10 hour long analysis on what happens between the tea dregs scene and the end of the movie#the servant 1963#movie*#faves#begging#fear#drugged#resigned
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sorry cant go out tonight, im busy obsessing over the staircase as a symbol of sex and power
#up & down indeed#writing abt it for my newsletter#well be talking about#saltburn#the servant 1963#dirk bogarde#gothic fiction#marlocandia.txt#vampire#dracula daily
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